[–]▶ deaa2b (3) No.15693671>>15693689 >>15695528 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
So, I'm sick and I want to play this game. I played the first one several years ago and loved it. Should I use the patches released by Blizzard or community patches? What would you guys recommend. Spoon feed me? I know there was a pasta floating around.
▶ 78f944 (5) No.15693689>>15693917 >>15694168
>>15693671 (OP)
D2SE with PlugY.
▶ 73ea25 (1) No.15693712>>15693772
MedianXL is worth trying after you beat the game.
▶ 97774a (2) No.15693739>>15693755
go to patch 1.13, then use the single player ladder mod
▶ deaa2b (3) No.15693755>>15693835
>>15693739
Why not 1.14 since it adds compatibility with W7-W10?
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15693772
>>15693712
>MedianXL is worth trying after you get bored with the game.
FTFY,
I should probably mention median XL isn't perfect
I ended up trying druid to see what the transformations were like, and the porcupine dog was pretty fucking ugly, probably due to how large it was
Also the paladin turning into hot sexy demon girl when he uses that dragon transformation ability was pretty funny
Should also mention that you should never play this if you're epileptic because attacks look like firework shows sometimes and there are an ungodly amount of enemies on the screen
▶ 856889 (1) No.15693828>>15695034
▶ 97774a (2) No.15693835
>>15693755
i can play 1.13 on W7 by enabling compatibility mode
▶ d1c1d2 (1) No.15693917>>15694211 >>15694233
>>15693689
This
Plugy lets you have a shared stash between your characters and gives access to Ladder-only content (runewords and Uber Quests). D2SE lets you use different versions of Diablo 2 and mods without fucking up your installation folder. Some mods I've liked are:
>Reign of Shadows
>Battle For Elements
>Eastern Sun
>Royaume des Ombres (it's in beta, but looks quite promising)
>Path Of Diablo (Has pretty nice changes, but requires a custom launcher that doesn't work on Linux via WINE, and it's hosted on Reddit of all things)
Have a lot of fun, mate.
▶ 9d6010 (2) No.15694079>>15694168 >>15696516
Can someone tell me what's the best way to play through the game once without using mods that alter the game too much or have lower quality than the base game? Patches, cut content restoration, balance/QOL changes, that sort of thing. I don't care about druid transformations and all that homebrew jank.
▶ 78f944 (5) No.15694168>>15694194
▶ 9d6010 (2) No.15694194>>15694211 >>15695683
>>15694168
Thanks, I guess, you could have explained it a bit at least.
▶ 78f944 (5) No.15694211
▶ 396160 (1) No.15694233
>>15693917
Path of Diablo is pretty good if you want to play online in a server.
▶ deaa2b (3) No.15694450
D2SE with PlugY it is then. Thanks.
▶ f984db (2) No.15694506>>15695026
Is there a mod were your companion is a succubus?
any mods that can change your character skin tone? i always wanted to play the amazon with brown skin.
▶ 086f4f (1) No.15695026
>>15694506
lol just dim your monitor, bro
▶ 3328c8 (1) No.15695034
>>15693828
>just play path of tencent
the fact that its shit doesn't help it either
▶ 671ae8 (1) No.15695052
years ago, i thought the diablo games were made by spanish devs. the spic word for devil threw me off
▶ f984db (2) No.15695099
>mfw manage to install all that shit
here you go faggots, if a retard like me manage to do it, so can you
▶ 842514 (1) No.15695456
Diablo 2 is one of those Gold Standard games that defines and perfects a genre. I'll always have an install of it on my computer until the end of god damn time.
▶ cfc34c (1) No.15695514
You more or less need the nostalgia factor to enjoy it. It's not good otherwise. I would say you definitely need community patches to make it enjoyable, I played the solely blizzard version and it is just not very good.
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15695528
>>15693671 (OP)
i just use glide and play it on battle.net
▶ e488db (1) No.15695587>>15695614
>not playing D3
bet you own a CRT and never shut up about it too
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15695632>>15696715
>>15695614
8chan was name dropped by a bunch of ecelebs recently. might be a cuckchan refugee
▶ b321a6 (1) No.15695683>>15696132 >>15696307
Bonemancer best necro
all skelemancers and summon mancers get out
dagger and novamancers can stay
>>15694194
D2SE also lets you reset your points at any time which saves you the heartache of trying to fill out your build only to realize that it sucks and have to reroll
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15696132>>15696307
>>15695683
>mfw trapassin
>mfw necros can't do shit against traps
>mfw burst of speed makes bone prison and bone spirit useless
How will necros ever recover?
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15696307>>15696504
>>15695683
you can reset stats/skills in 1.14 no need to mod.
>>15696132
trapsins are great, my main every ladder reset
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15696504>>15696613
>>15696307
>you can reset stats/skills in 1.14 no need to mod.
I thought there was a limited amount of rerolls?
▶ 40cebb (1) No.15696516
>>15694079
D2 is still officially supported, so you could always play on b.net on the latest patch.
▶ 288820 (1) No.15696523>>15698212
25 FPS LOCK
Seriously tho D1 got 60 fps remake/port, why won't somebody do that for D2?
Are they too different in coding?
▶ 4be37e (1) No.15696536>>15696589
The last patch took out the difficulty. Lightning gloams, fire enchanted exploding elites, some poisons all did damage every frame which may have been a 'bug' but were the main sources of difficulty and suspense in playing outside bosses. I don't remember if Blizzard are responsible for it but it seems likely, one last shit on the game they didn't create.
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15696589
>>15696536
>tfw still playing 1.13
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15696613>>15696660
>>15696504
every time you do den of evil you get a stat and skill reset (once for each difficulty). then afterwards you can collect essences from bosses then cube a reset item
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15696660
>>15696613
fug didnt know that
although i never bothered stat resetting more than once, I kind of had my build in mind before that
Although i can understand new people going into the game and initially trying out builds and finding them useless rather than putting skills into literally everything like i did
I had trouble trying to beat nightmare baal with a shitty specced-in-everything assassin it was still better than my necromancer
Point being, i had first hand experience in what skills were good before i started making good characters
The skill reset provided however was a god send for some of my shitty characters
▶ a83e62 (1) No.15696715>>15697561
>>15695632
>namedropped by a bunch of ecelebs recently
Source?
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15697561>>15699205
>>15696715
>>15696715
the rational skeptics had an election stream and were pretending to be "cool 8chan users".
▶ 5c9a8d (2) No.15697642>>15697644 >>15697960
don't upgrade to 1.14 it bricks the fucking game because blizzshit wanted to make sure you don't use plugins and mods on it
also if you're playing single player go necro and steamroll the game until you have enough gear to make a decent character
GoMule and PlugY are your go-to for a relatively hassle-free vanilla experience
▶ 5c9a8d (2) No.15697644>>15698006
>>15697642
also fucking kill me I just noticed I made meme spacing without even noticing. fuck writing corporate e-mails
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15697960>>15697978 >>15697983 >>15698002
>>15697642
>don't upgrade to 1.14 it bricks the fucking game
how does it do that?
Is it like how the latest warcraft patches moved shit around on your computer, putting you maps into an entirely different position?
also anyone else think that the upcoming warshaft 3 deforged is just an attempt at testing the waters about how much they can fuck up a game?
I mean it might be related to what they plan to do with the diablo 2 remastered edition because all their new games are doing shit except for overwatch which is only doing so well because it copied teamfortress, added moba abilities and sex appeal
▶ e20f9a (1) No.15697970>>15698161 >>15698192 >>15698996
I liked Diablo 1 more. I'm at act 2, the desert and I'm not interested at all. Diablo 1 I kept going and going.
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15697978
>>15697960
i have no idea, 1.14 works fine for me.
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15697983
>>15697960
it's not just a remaster, it' an "enhancement"
they're redoing the unit balance and the campaign is confirmed to have changes in it to conform with WoW. The demo at blizzcon had the culling of stratholme mission on. People who played noticed that the map was entirely changed to be more like the WoW area and characters from WoW were in it.
▶ 1d2509 (1) No.15698002
>>15697960
>deforged
Not bad.
I think several things made this happen:
>Blizz desperately needs a cash injection since all of their games are dying (the fact that you can preorder it right now when the game is expected to launch by December of 2019 tells you as much)
>to push WoW sub numbers up, the current story needs to look more appealing
>there is likely a feeling of the old story being "problematic" or some dumb shit by the current writers
>rewriting an old game is very easy when there is no one to stand in your way
They get to make a cheap WoW advertisement, give the interns something to do, appease the fools who begged for this (they don't care about fans but get to pretend they do) and make money in the process.
WoW is everything to Blizzard, and with it doing as badly as it is they have no choice but to dig up some old bones and hope this necromancy works.
If this proves to be successful, I wouldn't be surprised if they rewrote and "reforged" Warcraft 1 and 2 in the same way to pave the road for future WoW expansions.
Just think about what they could do with that kind of power.
▶ fc0afa (1) No.15698006>>15698009
>>15697644
So what you're saying is that "meme" or "meme spacing" is not something exclusive to reddit, but has in fact been used everywhere on the internet for decades before some literal retards started screaming about it recently?
▶ fb4538 (8) No.15698009
>>15698006
corps like bullet points and lists.
▶ cd89cb (2) No.15698161>>15698162 >>15698192
>>15697970
D1 is for (man)children with autism
D2 is for (man)children with ADHD
D3 is for (man)children with low estrogen.
DI is for chinks.
Healthy human being won't play Diablo anything.
▶ cd89cb (2) No.15698162
>>15698161
*low testosterone
Obviously
▶ 7cdcc9 (8) No.15698192>>15698976
>>15697970
the desert isn't that great in my opinion, apart from sanctuary
maggot lair rapes summoners, duriel is one of the most unfair bosses in the game and the quests aren't as good as the first act. Supposedly a lot of people like the third act better, if only because its harder
I will say though that the third act can be a kind of nightmare to navigate through, especially when you have to assemble that shitty flail, but everything else is pretty gud
Mephisto is actually a pretty good boss
Still the desert Act only takes like an hour and a half to beat solo, so its pretty easy to get through
>>15698161
where does diablo 2 medial XL belong on that list?
▶ 78f944 (5) No.15698212
>>15696523
>Seriously tho D1 got 60 fps remake/port
No it didn't. Someone half-assed a buggy mod and never finished it. It's been dead for over a year.
▶ b021c4 (1) No.15698523>>15698925
Let's just say that for some reason someone bought both the game and the expansion for 3 bucks. How can you switch to prior patches?
▶ 78f944 (5) No.15698925
▶ b145d9 (1) No.15698976
>>15698192
Numbers-obsessed jrpg addicts who don't understand visual design or game design.
So, autism and chinks.
▶ c7c51d (1) No.15698996>>15699032
>>15697970
>I liked Diablo 1 more
best way to replay the game? any succubus mods?
▶ 1d4a08 (1) No.15699032
>>15698996
There's a mod called The Hell mod for Hellfire. It's an overhaul and I enjoyed it at the time but I remember getting stuck near the end of the catacombs because I ran out of shit
▶ 2cde5c (1) No.15699205
>>15697561
Why are fedoras insufferable faggots?